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my efforts with the highrise API

I’ve been tinkering with the highrise API for a while now, building a simple little ‘people viewer’ in Apollo (AIR is such a gay name, sorry), and have had a good time playing with different ways to get my data from highrise. It’s been a lot of fun building the app, I’ll probably start posting [...]

Battle of the mind mappers… Part dos

So after my first post on the topic, i got several comments on other web 2.0 mind mapping tools. I’ve played a little more with each, and have some thoughts. As a frame of reference for my comparison application is inspiration. I used it for years. I only stopped because… well I’m cheap and didn’t [...]

A datagrid bug… GRRR

This has been troubling me for some time now, and thanks to Justin, it’s finally solved!!!   I won’t poach his code, go take a looke. the jist is that in some cases, DataGrid columns marked as visible=false, will be displayed. I had just such a situation in an app I have to maintain. I [...]

Time for some change

My (albeit) short tenure with Quovadx is coming to a close. This coming week is my final week there, before I start a new role at a new company, in a new town (sorta). I’ve decided to join Xylem CCI as a Senior Software Engineer (feels like I’ll be launching Space Shuttles or something). I’ll [...]

Mind for two, cool AJAX mind mapping goodness

Tom knows how much I like the Mind Map, so he pointed me to mind42, so I finally checked it out. It’s dope. A little harder to use than a desktop app, but I think that’s more  about it beig browser based and AJAX vs. application design.  I’ll probably try it out a bit more, [...]

Galactica… the end is nigh

:( it’s official "This show was always meant to have a beginning, a middle and, finally, an end," Eick and Moore said in a statement on May 31. "Over the course of the last year, the story and the characters have been moving strongly toward that end, and we’ve decided to listen to those internal [...]